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Backpacks are the utilitarian travelers pouch. From hiking and camping to lugging schoolbooks across the quad, backpacks are a necessary part of any equipment-carrying foot transport. But backpacks have featured the same general design for decades. That is, until you step in to redesign the most basic type: the schoolchildren’s backpack.

Your task today is to redesign the common school backpack. First, identify the core character issues school kids deal with in regard to the backpack. Then, draw or sketch out what the modern day school backpack should be. Consider function, form, materials, mobility, the ...

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